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A dark, funny and subversive memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you, Rosie Waterland's story of her coming of age is a blackly comic Australian memoir for our times and a clarion call for all anti-cool...
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The rise and fall of the brothers Gibb is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian music history.
Despite several rebirths in a career that spanned many decades, it seemed that tragedy followed the Gibbs like a curse. For ev...
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Guy Pratt came of age just as playing bass became cool, with the likes of Paul Simonon and Bruce Foxton. Having dallied with Funkapolitan, Pratt suddenly found himself on Top of the Pops and supporting David Bowie with smoot...
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The bush: in Australia no word resounds like it, and none is harder to define. Far from a conventional history of it, this is an idiosyncratic, highly original and insightful journey through Australian landscape, history and cu...
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It's Saturday night, there's nothing on television, you decide to rent a DVD from the local video shop. The problem is, you can't find anything good which leaves you faced with choosing the mediocre or the truly awful.
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The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Aus...
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The inspiring true story of one man's reconciliation journey. All through his growing-up years, John Danalis's family had an Aboriginal skull on the mantelpiece; yet only as an adult did he ask where it came from and whether...
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DAYS WITH MY FATHER is a son's photo journal of his aging father's last years. Following the death of his mother, photographer Phillip Toledano was shocked to learn of the extent of his father's severe memory loss. He starte...
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The name of Mary MacKillop, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, and now Saint Mary MacKillop, is well known to thousands of Australians. Less is known about the actual life and character of Mary itself.
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